The 17 “rare earth” minerals that are essential to so many high-tech products today, from electric cars to magnets and military systems, aren’t literally rare, but their mining and production is. Read more.
Megan Preston Meyer was enjoying a highly successful career as a supply chain expert for numerous companies. Something was missing, though — what she calls “the stories that data doesn’t tell.”
Are we on target for making zero-emission vehicles account for half of all cars sold in the U.S. by 2030? Not without enough rare earth minerals to build them.
